Ismaili and Fatimid studies in honor of Paul E. Walker
By: edited by Bruce D. Craig
Series: Chicago studies on the middle east
Publisher: Middle East Documentation Center
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780970819963
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Hidden imams and mahdis in Ismaili history / Farhad Daftary; title: Kawn al-ʻalam: the cosmogony of the Ismaʻili daʻi Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Nasafi / Wilferd Madelung; title: Maqriziana XII. evaluating the sources for the Fatimid period: Ibn al-Maʻmun al-Baṭāiḥī's history and its use by al-Maqrizi (with a critical edition of his résumé for the years 501-515 a.h.) / Frédéric Bauden; title: Sources for al-Qaḍi al-Nuʻman's works and their authenticity / Ismail K. Poonawala; title: Was Naṣir-e Khusraw a great poet and only a minor philosopher? Some critical reflections on his doctrine of the soul / Daniel De Smet; title: A Shiʻi-Muʻtazili poem of al-Ṣaḥib b. ʻAbbad (d. 385/995) / Maurice A. Pomerantz; title: An illustration of the Caliph al-Ḥakim together with his astronomer/astrologer Ibn Yunus / David A. King; title: The Almohads and the Fatimids / Maribel Fierro; title: Church building, repair, and destruction in Fatimid Egypt / Marlis J. Saleh; title: Urban violence at Baghdad in the rivalry between the Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates / Abbas Hamdani.